Yasiel Puig Signs With Canadian Team Amid Legal Issues

Yasiel Puig

Former Los Angeles Dodgers star Yasiel Puig has found a new team.

Puig, 35, signed with a baseball team in Toronto, though it’s not the Blue Jays.

Instead, he’s agreed to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, a semi-pro baseball team that shares a name with the hockey franchise, as reported by Darnell Mayberry of The Athletic, who cited the Toronto Star as breaking the news.

What is Yasiel Puig doing playing in Canada?

It’s probably something many never thought possible for a former MLB All-Star, but Puig hasn’t played in the majors since 2019.

Before that final year, though, he’d had some bright moments for the Dodgers.

Puig appeared in more than 700 games in six seasons for the Boys in Blue. He recorded a .277 batting-average with 636 hits, including 108 home runs, and was named an All-Star in 2014, his second season.

After that stint, he split 2019 between the Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Indians, now known as the Guardians.

He’s expressed some interest in rejoining the Dodgers, where he spent six of his seven seasons, and retiring with the team, but that hasn’t panned out.

“Yes, I want to be with Los Angeles again one more time,” . “I love the city, I love the fans, this is a great place to be, and I do my little career here in Los Angeles. I love the stadium, I love everything that comes with the Dodgers like great fans, great city, [I have been with] a lot of different teams and I want to live that part of my life again.”